Polk County Public Schools removed six books after challenges in past year
Committees for Polk County Public Schools voted to remove the six titles after reviewing them following public challenges.
Hundreds of books removed from shelves across the Sunshine State
Nearly double the number of books were removed from Florida schools last school year compared to the previous year, according ...
Florida education officials report hundreds of books pulled from school libraries
The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. “Forever” by Judi Blume. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut. All have been pulled from ...
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Hickory author releasing fiction book on belonging, environmental destruction in Appalachia
Hickory author Rhonda Browning White is continuing her family’s storytelling tradition. “I come from a family of storytellers ...
Orange County Register13d
Why Al Pacino’s ‘Sonny Boy’ is a story you have to hear
who recently appeared as author Flannery O’Connor in her father Ethan Hawke’s film, “Wildcat.” Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy ...
Knoxville News Sentinel27d
University of Tennessee English faculty 'shaken' with grief after professor's sudden death
Haddox's career linked to Flannery O'Connor, Catholicism While he taught ... He was working on a book that theorized the role of grace in literature, one that Anderson was looking forward to ...
Richmond14d
RVA 100: Ellen Glasgow influenced future Southern women writers
Ellen Glasgow had always wanted to be an author. Born to a prominent family ... women writers like Eudora Welty and later Flannery O’Connor. Glasgow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ...
The Washington Post25d
In this history of American horror, nothing is scarier than our past
The book’s title, “American Scary,” cleverly ... he evokes Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the banality of evil to examine Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and ...